Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy Tech major Hitachi Energy has announced a strategic acquisition of eks Energy, adding its advanced power electronics and energy management software capabilities to Hitachi’s growing portfolio. Skoon Energy Raises €5 million to expand software platform powering on-site customers and grid operators.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The UK's growing sources of wind, solar and hydro power served to significantly curb millions of households' reliance on expensive, carbon-intensive fossil fuels last month, further underscoring the benefits of expanding clean, renewable electricity sources to tackle the ongoing energy crisis. per cent of annual UK gas demand.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Iberdrola, Ørsted, ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Yara and Snam lead UN-backed drive to halve cost of hydrogen by 2026. The bold vision and leadership of businesses can propel green hydrogen along an exponential growth trajectory to support economic recovery and deep decarbonisation sooner than anticipated.".

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. ” Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A 6GW pipeline of green hydrogen projects is being primed in the UK and Europe over the next two years, but experts fear key pieces of the policy puzzle still need putting in place. Could 2022 be the year in which green hydrogen produced using renewable power moves from 'nice idea' towards a mainstream, bankable investment proposition?

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Using advanced AI , the Capalo platform attempts to optimise the use of flexible energy assets, such as energy storage systems and EV charging stations, allowing the commissioning of weather-dependent renewable energy sources to grow by coordinating with the flexibility of the energy grid to adjust to production and demand fluctuations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. The people who are pushing for hydrogen heating aren’t genuinely interested in tackling climate breakdown – they’re looking for a lifeline for the gas industry,” says Sarah Becker of Global Witness.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

Of course, the energy transition demands a grid evolution too. According to Detwiler, the grid 1.0 started with fossil fuels, then it evolved to 2.0 long-duration storage, likely hydrogen). According to Detwiler, the grid 1.0 started with fossil fuels, then it evolved to 2.0

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Surging demand for the minerals needed to build solar panels, wind turbines, hydrogen electolysers, batteries, and electric vehicles (EV) is set to accelerate further in the coming years, fuelling fears the net zero transition could be hampered by a metals supply crunch in the coming years.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. Recent U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The government is aiming to get the prototype nuclear fusion plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the UK's power grid up and running by 2040, and has committed to spending £222m on the early-stage design phase of the project.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. That makes it the largest green hydrogen proposal on the drawing board thus far.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The government announced yesterday that the device, dubbed the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, has successfully produced its first plasma, the heated hydrogen gas required for nuclear fusion, following a lengthy seven-year assembly period.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). These are underground control and power cables – including Europe’s longest high-voltage cable line in alternating current technology. the investor of D?bsk

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Driven by soaring fossil fuel prices and the urgent need for cleaner, cheaper energy, the market for smart grid technologies is expected to explode over the coming decade. By leveraging AI, electricity networks can ensure spikes in demand are predicted and mitigated," he said.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. power grid by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

On the one hand, the Christmas holidays marked a particularly green period for Britain's power grid, with electricity from fossil fuels falling to an all-time low, taking a mere six per cent share of overall generation on 29 December, according to analysis commissioned by energy company Drax.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The overall message is clear: the government needs to get a move on, or risk missing out on much needed global green investment, as well as a more energy secure grid system. "The We need to see rapid progress across both renewables and hydrogen deployment to make the 2035 target achievable."

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Investors eye major role for hydrogen in decarbonising UK's gas and energy system after deal valuing business at £9.6bn. National Grid's 7,660-kilometre transmission system plays a critical role in the UK energy landscape, transporting the gas needed to heat homes and power industry and electricity generation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

a wholly owned subsidiary, is working on a low-cost hydrogen fuel cell intended to function as residential solar batteries. Sustainable Energy Group has been focused on solar energy for over 2 decades The new hydrogen fuel cell solar battery is aligned to change the way solar systems work in residential markets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Its profile has grown over the past year as governments, particularly in Europe, have looked to find ways to boost their energy independence and curb soaring energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent fossil fuel supply crunch. The second scenario included in BNEF's report is much more worrying.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. The Energy Security Strategy sets a target of 10GW of hydrogen capacity by 2030 - at least half of which will be green hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Unprecedented low demand for power coupled with high renewables generation offers both headaches – and lessons – for the energy transition. To compound the challenge for grid operators, it is very difficult to simply 'switch off' certain power generators, with nuclear and some forms of renewable energy posing a particular challenge.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios analysis paints a compelling picture of the potential for an energy system replete with hydrogen, CCS and millions of EVs. While both CCS and hydrogen technologies are in their relative infancy today, they are critical to the UK meeting its legally-binding net zero target, it stresses.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales continue to surge in key markets, while scores of producers and users of cars, buses, trucks, and even scooters are now pushing towards ridding their operations of fossil fuel vehicles altogether. Moreover, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology holds massive potential to help ease demand for power if rolled out at mass scale.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Specifically, the NAO warns the government's ambitious targets to rapidly scale up offshore wind capacity and ramp up the use of energy storage and demand side response technologies needed to be accompanied by a clearer plan to ease planning barriers and ensure necessary grid upgrades are undertaken.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

A gas company has been accused of “greenwashing” in a North Yorkshire community ahead of a crunch decision on the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’. Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is bidding to host a two-year government-funded trial in Redcar, Teesside, to replace gas with ‘green’ hydrogen in around 2,000 homes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

This investment is essential to support the UK's continued economic recovery, the government's levelling up ambitions, business competitiveness and reduce the UK's exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The strategy - comprising three separate roadmaps for gas, electricity, and a 'whole systems' networks plan - is aimed at finding new ways for the UK's gas and power grid infrastructure to work together in a more integrated way to expand the use of zero carbon technologies across the network.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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